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NEC CoreGrafx II
Consoles
Japan
1991
8 bit HuC6280A
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CoreGrafx II /media/museum/photos/nec_coregrafx2_1.jpg /companies/nec NEC
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NAME CoreGrafx II
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MANUFACTURER NEC
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ORIGIN Japan
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YEAR 1991
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END OF PRODUCTION Unknown
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BUILT IN LANGUAGE None
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KEYBOARD 8-way d-pad, 2 buttons + Run + Select
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CPU 8 bit HuC6280A
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SPEED 7.16 MHz (Switchable by software to 1.79 MHz)
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CO-PROCESSOR 16 bit HuC6260 Video Color Encoder, 16 bit HuC6270A Video Display Controller
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RAM 8 KB
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VRAM 64 KB
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GRAPHIC MODES usually 256x240, 512x240 max.
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COLORS 512 palette, 482 on screen (241 background & 241 sprite)
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SOUND 6 PSG channels
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SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown
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I/O PORTS HuCard slot, AV out, gamepad port
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BUILT IN MEDIA HuCard
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OS Unknown
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POWER SUPPLY Unknown
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PERIPHERALS Super CD-ROM², Super System
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PRICE Unknown
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BOX /media/museum/photos/nec_coregrafx2_box.jpg
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PACHINKO CONTROLLER This is a pachinko controller for the PC Engine. The angled part which sticks out between the two main sections of the controller is a slider to adjust the angle of the pachinko balls as they come out. /media/museum/hardware/nec_pce_pachinko-controller.jpg
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TURBO PAD /media/museum/hardware/nec_turbografx_turbopad.jpg
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Ootake http://www.ouma.jp/ootake/ Windows Frequently updated Japanese emulator
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Magic Engine http://www.magicengine.com/ Multiplatform Commercial but excellent NEC PC Engine emulator. A must.
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Necstasy http://www.necstasy.net/fr/ PC-Engine & PC-FX TOC database
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pcenginefx.com http://pcenginefx.com/ The NEC console ressource.. Excellent.
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The PC Engine Software Bible http://www.pcengine.co.uk/ PC-Engine software archive. Very complete.
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TurboGrafx.net http://www.turbografx.net/ An English Turbo site with TG info and links!
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TurboGrafx16 http://www.atari7800.com/turbo/ TurboGrafx16 dedicated website
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Universo PCcengine http://pcengine.cjb.net/ Nice brazilian site
/museum/nec-coregrafx
/museum/nec-pc-engine
/museum/nec-pc-engine-duo
/museum/nec-pc-engine-duo-r
/museum/nec-pc-engine-duo-rx
/museum/nec-pc-engine-super-grafx
/museum/nec-turboduo
/museum/nec-turbografx-16-turbografx
1245
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https://web.archive.org/web/20230128093322/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1245 2023-01-28

Exactly the same as the CoreGrafx apart from a redesigned case.

Taneli Lukka from Finland comments:
Core II is the console where NEC's PCE department seems to lose their heads. There just are no explanations why it was released shortly after Core I. As a whole NEC's game console business is a horrible mess. The original PCE, Core I, Core II and two diffirent CD-Rom drives seem to have been manufactured side by side. New models never really replaced the old ones but merely supplanted them. NEC didn't even keep proper records of their console output or lost them somewhere along the way. This was noticed a few years back when the japanese console magazine Famitsu tried to make a big PCE history article and NEC couldn't provide them with any real production numbers for the consoles nor games for that matter.

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